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Organizing Committee Biographies
Roderick G. Eggert is professor and director of the Divi- doctoral work at the University of Munich as a von Humboldt
Fellow, she joined the technical staff at Sandia National
sion of Economics and Business at the Colorado School of
Laboratories, Livermore, then moved to ISU in 1983. In
Mines, where he has taught since 1986. He was editor of
her early academic career there, Thiel was recognized with
Resources Policy, an international journal of mineral eco-
awards from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation and
nomics and policy, from 1989 to 2006. Previously he taught
the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and by a National Science
at The Pennsylvania State University and held research
Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. Later,
appointments at Resources for the Future (Washington, DC)
she was elected a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society,
and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
the American Physical Society, and the Institute of Physics.
(Austria). He has a B.A. in earth sciences from Dartmouth
College, an M.S. in geochemistry and mineralogy from
Levi T. Thompson is the Richard Balzhiser Professor of
The Pennsylvania State University, and a Ph.D. in mineral
Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan. Other
economics from Penn State. His research and teaching have
honors and awards include the National Science Foundation
focused on various aspects of mineral economics and public
Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Union Carbide
policy, including the economics of mineral exploration, min-
Innovation Recognition Award, the Dow Chemical Good
eral demand, mining and the environment, microeconomics
Teaching Award, the College of Engineering Service Excel-
of mineral markets, and most recently mining and sustainable
lence Award, and the Harold Johnson Diversity Award. He
development. He served for two terms on the Committee on
is co-founder, with his wife Maria, of T/J Technologies, a
Earth Resources of the National Research Council (NRC).
developer of nanomaterials for advanced batteries and fuel
He served as chair of the NRC Committee on Critical Min-
cells. He is also Consulting Editor for the AIChE Journal,
eral Impacts on the U.S. Economy, which authored the 2008
and a member of the External Advisory Committee for the
report Minerals, Critical Minerals, and the U.S. Economy.
Center of Advanced Materials for Purification of Water
Patricia A. Thiel is the Division Director for Science and with Systems (NSF Science and Technology Center at the
University of Illinois) and AIChE Chemical Engineering
Technology at Ames Laboratory and a Distinguished Pro-
Technology Operating Council. Professor Thompson earned
fessor of Chemistry at Iowa State University (ISU), where
his B.ChE. from the University of Delaware, and M.S.E.
she is active in research, teaching, and administration. In
degrees in chemical engineering and nuclear engineering,
research, she is known for her work in three main areas:
and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of
nanostructure evolution on surfaces, surface properties
Michigan. Research in Professor Thompson’s group focuses
and structures of quasicrystals (a complex type of metallic
primarily on defining relationships between the structure,
alloy), and the chemistry of water adsorbed on metal sur-
composition, and function of nanostructured catalytic and
faces. Thiel is an enthusiastic teacher of physical chemistry.
electrochemical materials. In addition, he has distinguished
She has held several administrative posts at ISU, including
himself in the use of micromachining and self-assembly
chair of her department. Thiel received her B.A. in chem-
methods to fabricate microreactor, hydrogen production, and
istry at Macalester College, and her Ph.D. in chemistry at
micro-fuel cell systems. Professor Thompson leads a large
the California Institute of Technology in 1981. After post-
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multidisciplinary team developing compact devices to con-
vert gasoline and natural resources into hydrogen. Recently,
he was appointed founding Director of the Hydrogen Energy
Technology Laboratory.
